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Taxpayer, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is shutting down
taxpayer-funded animal experiments in record time. In theory, it's amazing news.
But there's a BIG problem:

What happens to the survivors on day 2?

Back in 2018, a WCW investigation exposed how government white coats are too
lazy and cheap to adopt out healthy lab animals that survive testing.

They either:

* kill them and throw them out like trash, or
* ship them off to a new lab for more torture.

Wasteful? Cruel? Yes, x2.

Well, Taxpayer, taxpayers bought these animals. Now WCW
is making Uncle Sam #GiveThemBack.

Thanks to the advocacy and donations of thousands of WCW supporters like you,
we’ve already retired lab survivors at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, the
Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health, and many
more!

These animals deserve a second chance, and the AFTER Act will ensure that
Taxpayer – together, we’ll give ALL government lab
animals a life outside the lab.
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Enclosed is my op-ed that was recently published in M. Citizen Magazine. I
explain how YOU and White Coat Waste Project (WCW) are making retirement a
requirement across the ENTIRE federal government, and introduce you to REAL lab
survivors.

It’s a quick 5-minute read and a warm reminder that when you support WCW, you’re
not only saving tax dollars… you’re saving lives.

Enjoy,



Devin Murphy
Public Policy & Communications Manager
White Coat Waste Project


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Give Them Back: A Second Chance for Lab Animals
A White Coat Waste Project Op-ed, originally published in M. Citizen Magazine
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Getting through the pandemic was challenging — but the unconditional love of an
animal made it a little easier. Shelters were cleared nationwide as millions of
Americans adopted pandemic pets; soft purrs and wagging tails served as
emotional life preservers during COVID-19’s darkest days. Even animals who had
been in shelters for months found homes. It was heartwarming to see, because no
animal should die alone and unloved.

Sadly, thousands of animals have no other choice. They are the forgotten ones,
never appearing in shelters, or on adoption websites. They will never know the
warmth of a hug, or the feeling of grass beneath their feet, and most will never
be adopted — not because they’ve unlovable or bad, but because of bureaucracy.
These are the animals that kindness forgot, born to suffer and bred to die: lab
animals.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Our organization, White Coat Waste Project (WCW), is dedicated to exposing and
ending $20 billion in wasteful government spending on animal experiments and
getting as many dogs, cats, bunnies, and other animals out of government labs as
possible. When the money stops, the killing stops.

The U.S. government — not big cosmetic companies or big pharmaceutical companies
— is the single largest funder of animal experiments in the world. The number of
federal agencies that conduct and fund animal testing is surprisingly large.

It’s not just the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug
Administration that test on animals; the Department of Defense, Department of
Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Justice do
too. So do the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease
Control. Even NASA.


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Disturbingly, virtually all of the animals who survive government experiments
are killed, even when they are healthy enough to live happy lives in loving
homes or sanctuaries.

Most federal agencies don’t allow taxpayers to adopt these survivors — even
though we bankroll their experiments. So, several years ago, WCW launched the
first national campaign to make retirement a requirement. Taxpayers bought these
survivors; Uncle Sam should give them back!

To date, our ‘Give Them Back’ efforts have retired survivors across the entire
federal government — from dogs at the VA, to rabbits at the EPA, guinea pigs at
the NIH, and many more.


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Baby Squirrel Monkey photographed in the FDA’s nicotine addiction experiments

Case in point: the FDA’s nicotine addiction experiments on baby monkeys. A huge
body of research has already proved that nicotine is addictive and smoking is
harmful. No one believes otherwise. So why were government white coats at the
FDA spending $5.5 million in taxpayer money to addict baby primates to
nicotine…in 2018? That seemed to us to be a flagrant misuse of taxpayer funds.

Working alongside famed primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, we rallied support from
Congress and the general public, and hammered FDA’s wasteful spending in the
press. Soon enough, the FDA relented. They ended their nicotine experiments, and
agreed, for the first time in agency history, to retire the remaining squirrel
monkeys to a sanctuary, where they could live out the rest of their lives in
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A similar scenario played out at the USDA, which for decades had run the
government’s largest cat lab. The experiments taking place at USDA’s $22 million
“Kitten Slaughterhouse” were heartbreaking and disgusting — including buying cat
and dog meat from foreign ‘wet markets,’ then feeding the meat to kittens in the
lab.

After exposing these gruesome ‘kitten cannibalism’ experiments, WCW rallied an
army of taxpayers and Members of Congress in both parties, and successfully
pressured the USDA to end the experiments. Yet the USDA found itself in a
predicament: what should be done with the survivors?


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Petite, on the ride home, the day we rescued her from USDA’s Kitten
Slaughterhouse

Previously, USDA white coats would simply kill them once the experiments
concluded — even healthy kittens, who had not undergone any experiments. But
with public scrutiny at an all-time high, that ‘solution’ was untenable. Instead
of killing the cats, USDA decided to make them available for adoption.
Unfortunately, they had no adoption policy in place, so they sold the survivors
for $1 each (check or money order only please, no cash), listing them as “excess
property,” along with file cabinets, chairs, and desks. The government can and
should do better.


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Our ‘Give Them Back’ campaign is personal to WCW: our founder and president now
lives with two cats, Petite and Delilah, who survived the USDA lab. Similarly, a
WCW board member adopted her dog Violet from a different taxpayer-funded lab.

When Violet arrived at her forever home, she was terrified. She didn’t know what
grass was; she had never felt the breeze, or seen the sun. Stairs were utterly
baffling to her. Yet despite Violet’s steep learning curve, she is happy now. As
any pet parent knows, animals are remarkably resilient, capable of overcoming
tremendous adversity while staying full of love, joy, and happiness.

Violet has inspired our one of biggest legislative pushes to date. Although we
have had great success at pressuring individual agencies into creating
retirement policies for animals in their care, a government-wide policy is long
overdue.

Violet’s Law, formally known as the Animal Freedom from Testing, Experiments,
and Research Act — the AFTER Act for short — would require each federal agency
to develop lab animal retirement policies. It is supported by broad bipartisan
coalitions in the House and in the Senate, as well as a supermajority of
Americans from across the political spectrum.

We brought Petite and Delilah, two of the cats rescued from USDA’s kitten lab,
to Capitol Hill, where they got to meet the lawmakers who helped shut down their
horrifyingly cruel experiments. “I’m so glad you’re free,” whispered Senator
Jeff Merkley of Oregon, as Delilah purred contentedly.

We are, too.


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Delilah with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

Devin Murphy is Public Policy and Communications Manager at White Coat Waste
Project, a nonprofit focused on ending taxpayer-funded animal experiments with
over three million members nationwide.

Demand your members of Congress to pass the AFTER Act – also known as Violet’s
Law – to retire ALL government, lab animal survivors into loving homes right
now!
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